Jamie Raskin

It would be at least arguably a violation of it to disregard all of those kinds of concerns.

ESG considerations are totally consistent with an asset manager's fiduciary duties to maximize shareholder value.

I do not know that it advanced the campaign against ESG. I think it reaffirmed the basic principles of the free market.

I want to thank all of our witnesses for what was a truly enlightening and educational discussion.

But they would rather be broke than woke.

I would never say that the states or the Federal Government should force all investors or asset managers to steer all their investments into ESG stocks.

Responsible investing works, and we have the opportunity to explain it today.

It is clear that honest American businesses are not buying the propaganda of climate denialism.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, for launching this important discussion and for holding a hearing on responsible investment strategies.

You have got a fiduciary duty to maximize the returns, and what you are saying is you want more information.

I hope that we will bring in this process, Mr. Chairman, real business people and other private asset managers to testify about how outrageous and indefensible it is to assault the free market in this way.

That is the difference between a free market democratic society and an authoritarian or totalitarian society.

Do not talk to me about global elites because I was here for the years of the Trump Administration.

If Texas wants to spend an extra half billion dollars on interest payments to make a totally political, totally partisan anti-woke statement, then have at it.

If you want to look at Purdue's actual record, what they are doing with Oxycontin and Oxycodone... that is your choice.

SVB's collapse was a failure of governance and describing it as a textbook case of corporate mismanagement.

The ESG Index is obviously performing a lot better than the general stock index.

It is the first one I ever saw. It was in the middle of all the terror and panic when Donald Trump had no plan at all.

This default on America's debt plan would actually try to claw back money that has already been appropriated for combating COVID-19.

COVID-19 is the deadliest, most disruptive public health crisis we have seen in more than a century.

This funding will help us understand what happened during COVID and how to better prepare for future emergencies.

GAO's independent, nonpartisan work is critical to the mission of efficient government, serving the public, and rooting out waste.

Congress has committed $24 billion in security assistance to Ukraine in their war of self-defense against the brutal invasion by Russia.

That really is cutting off our nose to spite our face.

This reckless Default on Our Debt Act would gut funding not just for veterans and housing and nutrition and climate work and so on, but for important oversight work which saves billions of dollars to our people.